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Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief.

At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: his father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him.

Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father's destruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful.

But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone who has need of just such a renegade. For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning…

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.

A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.

Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.

Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse--far worse--than mere Armageddon.

Выдающийся ученый-ядерщик сходит с ума и берет в заложники невинную семью, в результате чего гибнет сам и провоцирует массовую эвакуацию населения.

След радиации, обнаруженный в Нью-Йорке, приводит к складу, где все выглядит так, как будто всего несколько часов назад здесь была собрана мощная ядерная бомба.

Проанализировав доказательства, власти приходят к выводу, что вот-вот произойдет немыслимое: через десять дней крупный американский город подвергнется террористической атаке.

Десять дней. Гидеон Кру, проследивший за таинственной террористической группировкой от пригорода Нью-Йорка до гор Нью-Мексико, узнает, что исход может быть хуже — гораздо хуже — чем ядерный удар.